Artist statement

I am an artist, researcher, and traveler for whom creativity is inseparable from the effort of self-determination and transformation through contact with the other. As in the research process, in my creative work I strive to undergo a “phenomenological reduction of the world” — to question the habitual supports of perception and thought, to allow new data to transform my view of reality.

In my work, I engage with various media — from interactive installations to VR projects, creating immersive environments that involve the viewer in the exploration of alternative modes of perception and existence. Works such as “Storm Cloud” (2017), “IfRO&D” (2019), “The Becoming” (2020), become machines of affective induction, generating new states of consciousness and body through the transformation of habitual coordinates.

My artistic method is “ontological mapping,” an attempt to use the means of art to convey the experience of a processual, relational, multidimensional reality. A special place is occupied by the interactive installation IfRO&D — a necessary effort simulator, where the viewer experientially comprehends the dialectic of freedom and conditionality.

The conceptual core of my work is the idea of necessary effort, affirming the ontological ineliminability of the human effort of self-determination and the ethical responsibility arising from it. Another important reference point is the ontological understanding of ethics by Spinoza and Deleuze as an immanent plane of composition of forces and affects.